James Holland
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You weren't allowed to be left-handed. So you were right-handed. So you want to be on the left-hand side of the gun, so you can take the shell from your right and swivel it into the breech from your right side. But the loader in a Yank Panther or a Panther or a Tiger is always on the right-hand side of the bridge, which is ergonomically makes no sense whatsoever. Why do they do this?
You weren't allowed to be left-handed. So you were right-handed. So you want to be on the left-hand side of the gun, so you can take the shell from your right and swivel it into the breech from your right side. But the loader in a Yank Panther or a Panther or a Tiger is always on the right-hand side of the bridge, which is ergonomically makes no sense whatsoever. Why do they do this?
You weren't allowed to be left-handed.
So you were right-handed.
So you want to be on the left-hand side of the gun so you can take the shell from your right and swivel it into the breech from your right side.
But the loader in a Yak Panther or a Panther or a Tiger is always on the right-hand side of the bridge, which is ergonomically makes no sense whatsoever.
Why do they do this?
I've never found an answer to this.
I've never found an answer to this. But, you know, so there's all these little things. And as a soldier coming up against, you know, you're an American GI and you're coming up against a Tiger tank. You don't care about the fact that it's difficult to maintain or the problems involved of trying to get it to the battlefield. All you care about is this monster coming in front of you.
I've never found an answer to this. But, you know, so there's all these little things. And as a soldier coming up against, you know, you're an American GI and you're coming up against a Tiger tank. You don't care about the fact that it's difficult to maintain or the problems involved of trying to get it to the battlefield. All you care about is this monster coming in front of you.
I've never found an answer to this. But, you know, so there's all these little things. And as a soldier coming up against, you know, you're an American GI and you're coming up against a Tiger tank. You don't care about the fact that it's difficult to maintain or the problems involved of trying to get it to the battlefield. All you care about is this monster coming in front of you.
But, you know, so there's all these little things.
And as a soldier coming up against, you know, you're an American GI and you're coming up against a Tiger tank.
You don't care about the fact that it's difficult to maintain or the problems involved of trying to get it to the battlefield.
All you care about is this monster coming in front of you.
It's squeaking and clanking away and it's incredibly scary and it's about to blow you to bits. That's all you care about and quite understandably so. But those who are protracting the war at a higher level and historians that come subsequently and look at all this stuff, they do need to worry about all these things. I remember the same Georg Thomas, the architect of the hunger plan.
It's squeaking and clanking away and it's incredibly scary and it's about to blow you to bits. That's all you care about and quite understandably so. But those who are protracting the war at a higher level and historians that come subsequently and look at all this stuff, they do need to worry about all these things. I remember the same Georg Thomas, the architect of the hunger plan.
It's squeaking and clanking away and it's incredibly scary and it's about to blow you to bits. That's all you care about and quite understandably so. But those who are protracting the war at a higher level and historians that come subsequently and look at all this stuff, they do need to worry about all these things. I remember the same Georg Thomas, the architect of the hunger plan.
It's squeaking and clanking away and it's incredibly scary and it's about to blow you to bits.
That's all you care about.